[OE-core] [PATCH] libtool-cross/native: Force usage of bash due to sstate inconsistencies

[Robert Yang]

On 01/23/2014 08:37 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> Scenario:
>> a) libtool script is built on system with bash as /bin/sh
>> b) machine B installs sstate from build a)
>> c) machine B has dash as /bin/sh
>>
>> In this scenario, the script fails to work properly since its expecting
>> /bin/sh to have bash like syntax and it no longer does have it.
>>
>> This patch forces the configure process to use /bin/bash, not /bin/sh
>> and hence allows the scripts to work correctly when used from sstate.
>>
>> (From OE-Core rev: 2c66aa0fc98b092ebb37baee94e92d1965afd76b)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
>
> Does this work for Fedora, using bash in /usr/bin/bash?
>

Yes, I think so, on Fedora:

$ readlink -f /bin/
/usr/bin


/bin is a symlink which points to /usr/bin.

// Robert